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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Giveaway! One hundred followers.

I am hosting a giveaway to celebrate reaching 100 followers! Some of my family are amazed that one or two people would be as hooked on gardening as I am, let alone over a hundred! I thought I had plenty of time, but suddenly there you are! 102 followers a while back ... I am late!
I wanted to have something that I could easily send anywhere in the world, and since postage is so expensive it would have to be something light. Seeds cannot be sent overseas either.
I recently sent a silk scarf to my Mom and it was light to post so that has made the decision rather easy.
I make the silk scarves in my garden using the sun to set the color, and lay flowers and ferns on the fabric so that the sun sets the outlines. Here is an example of the one I did for my mom.

You need a sunny day and I dragged myself away from gardening last weekend in order to work on some silk scarves. Don't feel too sorry for me, as it is actually done in my garden :), and I get to pick flowers. I paint on the colors and then lay the scarves out on the grass with flowers and other assorted objects distributed over the scarf. These objects block the light and make them a shade lighter than the color that is exposed to the sun. It is great fun. I have made two scarves - one is "seascape design" and I will add little touches of silver fabric paint to highlight the seahorses and shells.

The other is blue and red and had hibiscus and plumbago flowers laid on it, so I have called it "tropical flowers" .

To enter, please submit a comment stating which scarf you would like to win and I will close down the comments and do a draw by random number selector on May 1st ........ Mayday!

Update .....May 1st - happy May Day and we have a

*********************** WINNER!

My random selector ended up being everyone's name in a hat, lots of stirring and shaking, and my hubby drawing out the name.... Sami! congratulations.I have contacted you by e-mail - please send me your address so I can get your scarf into the mail for you.

26 comments:

I absolutely love Tropical Flowers, the cplours are devine.It is only recently that I have become obsessed with scarfs, they make the most boring of outfits into something interesting and expensive looking.Please consider me for one of your giveaways as May 1st is my Wedding Anniversary 41 years....

Your scarves are stunning do you sell them? 102 followers is fantastic well done your blogs are always fascinating to read. I have to say for me the seascape scarf is my personal favourite I love blues and greens. Thank you AA for the opportunity to take part in your giveaway, and to reading more about your garden.

I'm not commenting to enter (not much of a scarf wearer, unfortunately, although I do have my late grandmother's *entire* collection if I ever change my mind.) So just dropping by to say they are really lovely, and you are very very talented!!

Congratulations on passing the 100 follower mark. That's brilliant, especially for all your blog readers as they now get to see your lovely garden, and wonderful work like these scarves. You are such a talented lady. I love these scarves. They really look terrific. I hope you sell them at the local markets or some similar venue. I'm sure they'd go like hot cakes!

Oh, Congratulations on reaching 100 followers, my Dear friend!!!I am so amazed finding your another talent and how you make them; beautiful scarfs, aren't they♡♡♡ I don't wear them so I think it is fair to pass the luck to others this time.

Gosh, I've been following your blog "incognito" for a little while, but I just had to comment this time around.Your scarves are absolutely beautiful....you really should consider selling them...even though I am in Barbados, I would be the first to place an order.Love your blog a whole lot.Virginia

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Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables, they probably get jet-lagged, just like people do - Elizabeth Berry

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" Philippians 4:6-7

The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more,

but in developing the capacity to enjoy less

- paraphrased from Socrates quote

“See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa

Nature in all its diversity grants us a glimpse into the heart of God the Father which is nothing but Love.

It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you seeHendry David Thoreau

Making a garden is not a gentle hobby for the elderly,to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole, and once it has done so he will have to acceptthat his life is going to be radically changed. May SartonPlant Dreaming Deep, 1983

When the trees sing,It doesn't really matterIf you know the song, Or if you know the words,Or even if you know the tune.What really matters is knowing ....That the trees are singing at all.Mattie Stepanek, 1990-2004

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walkor an evening saunter;to be thrilled by the stars at night:to be elated over a bird's nestor a wildflower in spring... these are some of the rewards of the simple life.John Burroughs, 1837-1921

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…”– Thoreau

“Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

You who walkmaybe with troubled thoughts....Come, enter here and restand may the sweet serenityof growing things....and the heavenly peacebe mirrored in thy soul.by Michael Palmer

Gods GardenThe Lord God planted a gardenIn the first white days of the world,And he set there an angel wardenIn a garment of light enfurled.So near to the peace of HeavenThat the hawk might nest with the wren,For there in the cool of the evenGod walked with the first of men.And I dream that these garden closesWith their shade and their sun-flecked sodAnd their lilies and bowers of roses,Were laid by the hand of God.The kiss of the sun for pardon,The song of the birds for mirth, -One is nearer God’s heart in a gardenThan anywhere else on earth.For He broke it for us in a gardenUnder the olive-treesWhere the angel of strength was the wardenAnd the soul of the world found ease.Dorothy Francis Gurney

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.Mary Jean Iron

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."~ John Lubbock******************************************************